US 12,088,870 B2
Video playing method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
Shuna Wu, Beijing (CN); Dong An, Beijing (CN); and Hao Qiu, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
Filed by Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing (CN)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/468,049.
Application 18/468,049 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2022/078710, filed on Mar. 2, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202110291842.7 (CN), filed on Mar. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0007702 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 21/43 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4312 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4825 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A video playing method, comprising:
displaying a plurality of videos in a form of rows and columns in a first page, a column direction being consistent with a slide direction supported by the page, and each of the number of the rows and the number of the columns being not smaller than 2;
determining, in response to a trigger operation, at least one first target video reaching a corresponding predetermined control line of predetermined control lines among videos in a to-be-played row, the predetermined control lines being in one-to-one correspondence with the columns in the first page, the predetermined control lines being arranged at intervals along the column direction, and the number of the predetermined control lines is the same as the number of the columns; and
stopping playing of a second target video that is being played in the first page, and playing the at least one first target video in the first page,
wherein when the columns are two columns, the predetermined control lines comprise a first predetermined control line adjacent to a starting position of the first page and a second predetermined control line adjacent to an end position of the first page, wherein:
when an operation direction of the trigger operation is a forward direction of the slide direction, the first predetermined control line corresponds to a right column of the page, and the second predetermined control line corresponds to a left column of the page; and
when the operation direction of the trigger operation is a backward direction of the slide direction, the first predetermined control line corresponds to the left column of the page, and the second predetermined control line corresponds to the right column of the page.